By Emilio Frenk.
Director: Nacho Vigalondo
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Austin Stowell, Tim Blake Nelson, Hannah Cheramy, Nathan Wilson and Dan Stevens.
Rating: Very Good.
Spanish writer/director Nacho Vigalondo brings “Colossal”, a both comedy and drama that I was very pleased with it and enjoyed it.
The movie tells the story of Gloria (Anne Hathaway) a girl who likes to party every single night and literally is out of control until one day her boyfriend Tim (Dan Stevens) kicks her out of her apartment ending their relationship since he gets tired of Gloria´s behavior.
Now Gloria decides to go back to the town where she grew up and meets her friend Oscar (Jason Sudeikis) who helps her and gives his total support to her.
One day while Gloria is watching the news and see´s a monster attacking South Korea she begins to see that the monster begins to have a relationship with Gloria. If Gloria begins to walk, scratches her head or stretchers her arm the monster begins to do the same thing.
Now Gloria begins to suffer a mental breakdown and first she shares this with Oscar who at the beginning doesn´t believe her but then when he see´s what´s really happening on the screen and with her friend he is in shock and will try to help her in every way he can before she looses her mind and the problem gets worse.
One of the things that I enjoyed from “Colossal” was that the film was very original and full with so much creativity on it.
Nacho Vigalondo´s writing was top of the notch and the way he crafted his screenplay was very interesting. In this movie he deals with themes like Alcoholism and Bullying in a different way that has never before seen and that is one of the things that made the movie work.
His directing was very sharp and I must say that the performance that surprised me the most was Jason Sudeikis who we don´t see in this type of roles since he is more a comedy actor but he can do serious roles as well and gives a fantastic performance.
The cinematography by Eric Kress was very well made and it was very interesting the way he played with the contrast of the characters.
In another note there were things specially in the third act that could have been more clear like the way both inner and external conflicts on the main characters were triggered.
I think that if the movie should have been triggered to a one theme instead of multiple ones since by moments was confusing.
Still the movie does deliver the goods and like I mentioned before it´s very original.
“Colossal” is a movie filled with drama but also with a lot of humor. I laughed on many of the scenes of the movie. I did feel identified with the characters and I put this movie as one of the surprises of this year and hopefully you will enjoy it as I did.